In November 2017, the California Digital Library (CDL) announced a two-year Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant funded project to further advance the scope, adoption,…
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We’ll be rocking your world again at PIDapalooza 2020
Posted in Persistent Identifiers, and PIDapalooza
The official countdown to PIDapalooza 2020 begins here! It’s 162 days to go till our flame-lighting opening ceremony at the fabulous Belém Cultural Center in…
Co-authored by Maria Gould and Daniella Lowenberg and cross-posted from the ROR blog How many datasets have been published in Dryad from researchers at the University…
Passing the Torch of Persistence: EZID Development Update
Posted in EZID, Persistent Identifiers, and UC3
Persistent identifiers are the backbone of scholarly communication infrastructure and long-term digital preservation, key to supporting a fully networked research ecosystem. CDL’s EZID service has…
UC Data Network: Lessons Learned
Posted in Data, Data Publication, Digital Preservation, Merritt, Projects, UC Libraries, and UC3
Scholars at the University of California need effective solutions to preserve their research data. This is essential for complying with funder mandates, publication requirements, policies,…
Hear Us ROR! Announcing Our First Prototype and Next Steps
Posted in OrgID, Persistent Identifiers, Projects, and ROR
What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last…
Although a ubiquitous term, the acronym CSV has varied meanings depending on who you ask. In the data space, CSV often translates to comma-separated values…
Where We Go From Here: An Update on EZID
Posted in EZID, and Persistent Identifiers
Rather than thinking about EZID solely as a tool or a service, we want to situate it instead as one layer of a deep and…
We Can’t Succeed Alone
Posted in Data Publication, Dryad, and Open Access
Within the realm of research data management, libraries spend resources building and providing tools that are not within researcher workflows and/or are not aligned with…
Community-Owned Data Publishing Infrastructure
Posted in Dash, Data, Data Publication, Digital Curation, Dryad, and events
As a library community, we continue to struggle to find scalable approaches to offering open, shared, sustainable scholarly infrastructure. This is especially true in the…